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Geforce Pascal Review thread
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Em...different vendors would not have a unified design for the PCB, so how is EK going to be able to design a block that will fit (and work well) on all of them?
In terms of compatibility of block with non-reference card, just thinking back about people asking about watercooling their non-reference card...nobody could really answer for sure if the waterblock would be compatible for cards with custom PCB. Somehow I got a feeling that Nvidia will dictate that AIB partners are not allow to use reference design for their PCB for the custom cards...so the only option is probably custom "hydro" cards with pre-fitted block or go for the more expensive reference card.
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EK release non ref blocks, that's what he's saying.
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Some have been refused warranty on MSI bought from here because they removed the cooler.
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So a different design for each manufacturer?
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Howcome none of the reviews are doing 1440p @ 3440x1440 ???
I kept reading all over the internet that that's the true 1440p PC gaming resolution, not 2560x1440!
I kept reading all over the internet that that's the true 1440p PC gaming resolution, not 2560x1440!
So 25% of the shaders shaved off along with some other cutbacks, regular GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus and a lower base clock. Be interesting to see how it fares against a 980 Ti overclock vs overclock, given a 1080 seems to only manage a 15% or so lead...
Quick skim through Anandtech and the 1080 looks excellent, 25-40% faster than the 980Ti, over 50w less power and decently quieter. If Anything nvidia underplayed how much faster the 1080.
Shame about the price but that will drop once the price gouging ends.
Shame about the price but that will drop once the price gouging ends.
Soldato
Long as the 1070 beats a 970 it will be a winner for less money well hopefully less money.
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Its hinted The Tech Report didn't get a sample in time for a launch review:
http://techreport.com/news/30140/in-the-lab-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-graphics-card
I wonder why??
http://techreport.com/news/30140/in-the-lab-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-graphics-card
I wonder why??
It certainly won't be a winner in my eyes if it only beats a 970, especially given Nvidia claimed the other day that it'd beat a 980 Ti. I'd be absolutely stunned if it wasn't closer to 980 pricing than 970 pricing as well. I don't see Nvidia having a £300 price gap between it and the 1080.
Also interesting in newer games Like Hitman and Tomb raider the performance increase is even bigger, as suspected when designing a future looking architecture for next gen games. 1080 is 42% faster than the 980Ti here. Didn't expect such a performance leap, was think more like 20-30%, not 30-45%.
Soldato
The problem is,as noted, by most here very few of the GTX980TI cards are running at reference speeds - the GTX1080 is only around 10% faster than the Gigabyte GTX980TI Extreme Gaming which is cheaper and that is going by the TechPowerUp reviews.
Hopefully,the non-reference coolers will do a better job.
Hopefully,the non-reference coolers will do a better job.
Soldato
Interesting card, poor price.. But it's NVidia so people will lap them up..
@ £620 for what is effectively a mid-range card is just lol.. I appreciate the engineering and the effort that goes into producing graphics chips, but for the mainstream they are pricing themselves out of the market. @£620 it's just too much, borderline taking the ****.
I'd hardly call it a mid range card. The gtx980 still isn't mid range to me.
Soldato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm6kiLG1dTw
This one is a interesting one, namely he overclocks it and says some 3rd party groups are gona ship them 2ghz as standard so you dont have to oc it at all.
This one is a interesting one, namely he overclocks it and says some 3rd party groups are gona ship them 2ghz as standard so you dont have to oc it at all.
Going by the 6.75 TFLOP/s on the 1070 against the 8.2TFLOPS/s(from non boost clock) on the 1080 - that's 15%(rounded up) slower than the 1080.
Looking at that link I would have thought it would have been slower.
We will see the same with the 1080 though, most will end up being overclocked quite significantly. We will see int he coming weeks but looks like there will be lots of Factory OC cards at 2.1GHZ or so.
The 1080 almost certainly has more OC headroom, less power, cooler running car designed for high clocks.
no it was a trick with vsync
i said it at the time, and i spotted it when drunk so shame on them guys lol